3:00 AM ET Bangladesh 136 for 6 (Shadman 41, Shakib 39*, Rashid 3-46) and 205 need another 262 runs to beat Afghanistan 342 and 260 (Ibrahim 87, Afghan 50, Zazai 48*, Shakib 3-58) Afghanistan are four wickets away from a remarkable Test win over Bangladesh after they reduced the hosts to 136 for 6 at stumps on the fourth day. A third bout of rain, however, forced the players off…
11:52 PM ET Alex Malcolm Perth Scorchers have signed New South Wales Kurtis Patterson for the next three Big Bash League seasons. Patterson, the 26-year old who has played two Tests for Australia, is headed west after six seasons with the Sydney Thunder where he managed just 25 games. He started his career at the Sydney Sixers playing one game in BBL 02. “I am really excited to be heading…
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3:00 AM ET Guyana Amazon Warriors 180 for 4 (Hemraj 63, Pooran 61*, Rutherford 32*, Primus 2-35) beat Barbados Tridents 133 (Nurse 40, Shepherd 4-13, Shadab 2-39) by 47 runs Guyana Amazon Warriors kept pace with Trinbago Knight Riders on the opening weekend of CPL 2019, as a fiery half-century from Nicholas Pooran helped them score 72 off the final four overs at Providence, putting a total on the board…
Joe Root insists he wants to continue as England captain despite failing to reclaim the Ashes 5:35 PM ET There is a scene in the film The Edge which might capture the moment England started building the side that took them to No. 1 in the Test rankings. It centred on a team meeting just after England had been bowled out for 51 in Jamaica in early 2009. In that…
Joe Root insists he wants to continue as England captain despite failing to reclaim the Ashes 4:11 PM ET Joe Root has insisted he “definitely” wants to carry on as captain of England despite failing to reclaim the Ashes. Australia’s victory in Manchester gave them an unassailable 2-1 lead in the series, meaning Root has led two unsuccessful attempts to win the urn. It was also Australia first successful Ashes…
3:00 AM ET The Report Sreshth Shah Trinbago Knight Riders 168 for 3 (Simmons 63, Ramdin 50, Pollard 26*) beat St Lucia Zouks 167 for 5 (Campbell 43, Cornwall 33, Neesham 2-33) by seven wickets Trinbago Knight Riders cruised to their third straight win in CPL 2019, as their experienced quartet of Lendl Simmons, Denesh Ramdin, Sunil Narine and the captain Kieron Pollard set up a comfortable seven-wicket win over…
4:00 PM ET Joe Root has insisted he “definitely” wants to carry on as captain of England despite failing to reclaim the Ashes. Australia’s victory at Old Trafford gave them an unassailable 2-1 lead in the series, meaning Root has led two unsuccessful attempts to win the urn. It was also Australia’s first successful Ashes campaign in England since 2001. But while Archie MacLaren, more than a century ago, was…
3:52 PM ET Australia’s players loosed a blood-curdling collective scream upon Manchester when umpire Kumar Dharmasena’s finger raised to deliver them an Ashes victory on English soil for the first time since 2001. If there was a brief moment’s purgatory while DRS confirmed the news, it contributed to a far more exhilarating moment than on that last distant occasion. That corresponding instant 18 years before had been the apogee of…
3:13 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff IT’S COMING HOME!!!! #youbeauty!!! #ashes — Glenn Maxwell (@Gmaxi_32) September 8, 2019 You beauty!!!! — Chris Rogers (@BuckRogers55) September 8, 2019 Yeeeeeesssss Australia! #cmonaussie #youbeautyaussie — Ryan Harris (@r_harris413) September 8, 2019 Well done Australia. Bloody beauty. This test cricket isn’t bad is it?? #retained awesome effort lads. — John Hastings (@johnhastings194) September 8, 2019 Well done Australia and @stevesmith49 for retaining the ashes. #Ashes19…